slippery slope

You skipped from a small step to catastrophe and called it a consequence.

Wrong: “If we allow remote Fridays, nobody will ever come in again.”

Right: “What would make Fridays spread to the rest of the week?”

The first step doesn’t produce the last one on its own. The middle is missing.

The trick is momentum: a chain of plausible-sounding steps where each link is never actually justified, arriving somewhere alarming enough that you argue about the destination instead of the reasoning.

The legitimate version: slopes are sometimes real, and precedent is a genuine thing. If someone can show the mechanism—why this step makes the next one happen—it stops being a fallacy and starts being an argument.

Now go show the steps.